Chords for The Making Of Lil Skies’ “Welcome To The Rodeo” With Taz Taylor | Deconstructed

The day that I made this beat [F] right here, I was in LA [Eb] for two and a half weeks doing [Gm] 16 hour
sessions every [Eb] day.
So I started making a beat.
I'm like, I'm going to get another beat to Skies.
[Gm] And as soon as I made it, Skies was just like, bro, this shit's crazy.
Like [Eb] instantly.
He sent
me a text message.
He's like, [Gm] bro, he got one.
And then the [Eb] engineer hit me.
She's like, yo,
this is crazy.
And it just happened to be the one.
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_ _ Internet producers do everything ourselves.
We design our own graphics.
We drop whatever
beats we want.
We kind of developed the industry because all the sounds that we made, the drum
kits, the industry [E] producers get the sounds and everything all comes from the internet.
So we're
like the first people to ride the wave.
[Bb] I started selling beats because I needed money.
I dropped
down to seventh grade.
My mom had [Dm] cancer.
You know, my mom, we've been like poor her whole
life, that type shit.
So I had to find ways to pay [Bb] her bills.
I was making half a million [F] dollars
online a year selling beats through Type Beats.
That was the first dollar I ever had.
Never had
a job, never [Bb] had nothing.
So the fact that the internet made that [F] possible for me selling beats,
regardless if I was going to get placements or not, it's just crazy.
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_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] The most important things when making a beat is just feeling, you know what I mean?
Like a vibe
or a groove or something like a bounce.
When I made the beat, pretty much I was just going
through the kits that I got from my website, Wavesupply, and finding melodies and different
loops and shit like that to work with.
And I came across this melody right here.
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I noticed that it was just too simple.
So what I wanted to do at that point was
pretty much find something to add some bounce to it.
So I pulled up the same sample and reversed it.
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[Eb] _ _ _ [Dm] I mean, that's cool, but whatever I did then, I was just like, it needs more bounce, especially
I'm just going to add drums on top of this.
So I use this plugin Filter Freak by Soundtoys a lot
whenever I'm trying to just establish bounce or a feeling in a certain melody or whatever.
I used a preset, Stepped Up Suite.
It just adds something different to it.
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So that together with the actual melody, with the effect and everything put on it. _
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_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [G] What I normally do after I do the melody is straight 808 because it's still a melodic
instrument.
I just normally follow the pattern of the original melody.
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[F] I didn't [G] use no effects.
I didn't put [Bb] nothing, no compressors.
I just [E] keep it pretty bare.
It's all in
the [G] actual sound.
The kick pretty much hits on a lot of the same notes the 808 does, but I have
the 808 kind of stuttering on certain parts that the kick isn't and the kick stuttering on certain
parts that the 808 isn't.
So together.
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_ _ _ [N] And then the hi-hats.
_ _ _ _ _ _ I used the MIDI kit from my site
that Nick Mira made, and I literally just dropped the MIDI in there.
It just worked.
You know what
I mean?
Who am I to say no?
And then at that point, I just felt like I needed more bounce.
So I added this last thing, just a simple hi-hat.
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And then you have the whole beat together. _ _ _ _
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[Gb] People overcomplicate beats.
Most of the times, the most simple beats are the ones that work
because it gives the artist the room to get on there and do whatever they want to do.
Being in the [Bb] studio with Skies, what makes him fun is the fact that a lot of artists would just
get in there and make [Fm] music just for the sake of making music.
[D] They don't care what the beat is [Eb] or
whatever like that, but he's very particular [F] in [G] what he does.
And he wants everything [Bb] he
touches to be great in [Cm] some type of way.
So I really [C] respect that from him.
Of his [G] whole album,
this is probably Skies' most [Eb] energetic track.
You know what I mean?
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It's a good song to open up a show with, a good song to open up his album with.
I'm just glad I was a part of it.
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There's no favorite lines from the song.
But he did say,
you could say I'm constipated, which doesn't make sense.
But, alright dawg.
100% Skies. _ _ _ _ _ _